The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is in trouble – big time. That much most analysts, policy makers, politicians, carbon traders, industrial polluters and NGOs agree. When it comes to diagnosis of the causes behind the symptom, prescriptions, or what…
A growing group of civil society organisations[i] is calling on the EU to abolish its Emission Trading System (ETS) to open space for truly effective climate policies. Today they release a joint declaration that highlights the many structural loopholes the ETS…
To support this campaign, click here! What is the economic power structure of the private groups in this country? Who are the actors who accumulate the most power in this structure, and what is the relationship amongst them? What is the…
Coca-Cola Philippines is systematically replacing regular jobs with contractual workers. Apart from promoting early retirement programs and replacing its senior workers with contractual employees, the company is also aggressively outsourcing many of its regular jobs. More insidiously, Coca-Cola imposed a…
As many countries in Africa, Gabon is facing an alarming rate of expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations. The government has given the Singapore based company Olam 300,000 hectares of land to establish monoculture tree plantations. Local communities have…
On this international and national day of mobilization in support for workers at Lonmin plcs Marikana mine, member organisations from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity express solidarity with the Marikana Solidarity Committee, the Lonmin plc…
WalMart Wal-Mart: Don’t stock Monsanto’s GMO corn. This is where the war to protect our food supply begins. In just a few weeks, farmers will begin planting Monsanto’s largest genetically modified corn crop in history marketed directly to consumers. This is…
As Adidas take centre stage as the official sportswear partner of London 2012, the harsh reality of life for the workers who make their clothes is being exposed. Workers making Adidas clothes around the world are paid poverty wages, have…
May 22th Shell has held its annual shareholdersmeeting in The Hague. To our disappointment, but unfortunately not to our surprise, Shell hardly addressed the environmental and social problems it causes in the Niger Delta. Answers to questions were insufficient. Proposals…